A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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